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August 30, 2013 FCW.COM
DEPARTMENTS
5 EDITOR'S NOTE
About that seat at the table...
11 COMMENTARY
Why a transformation
commission is good for feds
BY STEVE GOODRICH
5 steps to transforming
the executive branch
BY ALAN BALUTIS
22 YOUR CAREER
Leadership training in a
time of lean budgets
BY KATHERINE REYNOLDS LEWIS
25 EXEC TECH
Back to the future with BPM
BY JOHN MOORE
42 BACK STORY
IT programs at risk
Contents
TRENDING
3 CYBERSECURITY
HHS goes to the wire testing
health insurance exchange IT
FCW CALENDAR
Where you need to be next
8 SOCIAL MEDIA
Social toolThunderclap
OK'd for agency use
PROCUREMENT
GSA's newly released
OASIS RFPs under protest
9 CONTRACTS
IBM intervenes in
Amazon cloud case
10 MANAGEMENT
FITARA's CIO vision clashes
with administration's view
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14 MANAGEMENT
USPTO paves the way
for telework success
What works, what doesn t --- and what agencies have
learned from 16 years of virtualizing the of ce
BY FRANK KONKEL
18 PROFILE
New NASA CIO embraces
job's challenges
An audit of the agency s IT governance sets at least part
of the agenda for Larry Sweet s tenure
BY FRANK KONKEL
20 FIRST PERSON
NIST's cyber center moves
into high gear
Acting Executive Director Donna Dodson describes
the mission, priorities and strategy for the National
Cybersecurity Center of Excellence
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